R0Ready App
AppSpaced repetition practice for R01-R05, built around original questions, timed mocks, and progress tracking.
A curated list of useful links for R01-R05 candidates: official CII pages, third-party training providers, exam strategy articles, podcasts, communities, and a few R0Ready resources that fit alongside the app.
If you're a financial advice practice, network, or training provider with staff working toward CII qualifications, R0Ready can help with structured, self-paced exam prep.
These are the pieces that sit closest to the product itself: the app, the free demo, the Spotify companion, and Michael's Substack on the career-change path into planning.
Spaced repetition practice for R01-R05, built around original questions, timed mocks, and progress tracking.
Try 15 free R01 questions with explanations and see how the spaced repetition flow actually feels.
Free audio companion to the exam journey, paced around the syllabus and built for commutes, walks, and review away from the screen.
Michael's Substack on money, work, and changing career into financial planning.
The practical starting point: qualification info, supporting exam documents, results timing, and the CII tools included with enrolment.
Main qualification page covering enrolment, syllabus details, and how the diploma is structured.
CII's own online practice question tool, included with enrolment or study-text purchase.
Tax tables and related documents that appear in the exam and are worth studying beforehand.
Explains how and when CII exam results are released after you sit a unit.
Available per unit on the CII website and usually the first free mock-style paper worth working through.
Useful when you want more than the study text: readable notes, one-day workshops, calculation workbooks, e-learning, or mocks that feel closer to the real exam.
Study guides, e-learning, workshops, and one-day masterclasses across the full R0 range. Often cited as the exam-specialist option.
Mock papers, revision notes, study kits, and especially strong calculation workbooks for R02, R03, and R04.
E-learning packages and mock exams for R01-R05, often recommended for explanations and exam-style feel.
Online courses, gap analysis, and assessments, with a long-running pass-rate comparison table that many students check.
One-day revision support and masterclass-style help for students who want intensive sessions alongside self-study.
Self-study courses with video tutorials, study guides, assignments, and mock exams across R01-R05.
Audio study material for R01-R05, aimed at candidates who want to learn while commuting, walking, or training.
Some of these are directly about becoming a planner. Others are better for helping pensions, tax, investment, and protection concepts click outside revision mode.
Career stories from planners, paraplanners, and career changers. Good for seeing where the exams fit into real careers.
The community podcast for new and aspiring planners, with a mix of best practice, career development, and industry discussion.
Interviews with people at different stages of financial planning careers, especially useful if you are entering from another field.
Conversations with directors and owners of planning firms, useful for understanding the profession on the other side of the exams.
Plain-English coverage of pensions, investments, protection, and tax that helps make R02-R05 topics easier to grasp.
Useful when text is dragging and you want a clearer visual explanation of pensions, tax, investments, or the shape of the profession.
Simple, visual walkthroughs of pensions, ISAs, investments, and tax. Especially useful for R02-R05 topic understanding.
Career-focused content and interviews, including collaborations with training providers that many R0 students already know.
Useful for seeing what other candidates are struggling with, which providers people recommend, and how early-career planners are navigating the qualification route.
The best-known paraplanning discussion board, with active R0 study-material threads and a particularly useful CPD and exams section.
Small but growing subreddit for CII-specific discussion.
Not exam-specific, but very useful for strengthening your intuition around tax, pensions, and investments.
Community and events for new and aspiring planners, with a strong overlap between studying and career development.
A mix of first-hand advice, training-provider guidance, and higher-level overviews of exam order, revision method, and time management.
James Tout's first-hand account of passing R01-R05 as a career changer, with practical study and sequencing tips.
BTS guidance on unit sequencing, including the usual question of whether to start with R01 or R05.
Brand Financial Training's guide to the R0 route, including data on the order candidates actually choose.
Practical tactics for mock usage, multi-response question technique, and time management.
High-level starting guide covering enrolment, study options, exam format, and how to get moving if you are new to the diploma.
These are useful for R01 regulation context, for following the industry you are qualifying into, and for reinforcing tax, pensions, and investment knowledge from better real-world angles.
Trade publication covering regulation, policy changes, and adviser-facing industry analysis.
Exam tips, technical articles, and career content aimed at paraplanners and aspiring advisers.
News, analysis, and CPD-style content for IFAs, including wider industry developments.
The source material for a lot of R01 regulation content. Dense, but definitive.
Official tax rates, allowances, and guidance that are directly relevant to R03 study.
Useful for workplace pension guidance and regulation, especially around R04 topics.
Government-backed guidance on pensions, investments, insurance, and related personal finance topics in cleaner language than most source material.